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Velveteen Rabbit
2026-05-22 00:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Set within a film shoot, layered with live projections, physical theatre company Born in a Taxi thoughtfully and hilariously reimagines this 100 year old children’s story by Margery Williams. Please bring your own favourite snuggly toy to the show.
This is a show where the toys are in charge on stage and your own special guest toy is a VIP.
One of those rare stories that dare to tease out complex themes of love, loss and change in a way that allows children to connect with them, Velveteen Rabbit is about a toy rabbit who becomes real, but how did it happen?
In the hands of Born in a Taxi, the story is infused with dynamic audience participation, live and recorded music with live stream video and projections layered into the work that plays with multiple scales that reflect the perspective of a child. Playful, visual and poetic.
A must-see for families and anyone who has ever cherished a beloved toy.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council

Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 2026
2026-05-20 00:00
Australia’s biggest comedy festival is hitting the road and bringing the laughs to you! Join the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow as it journeys around Australia, delivering hot and tasty comic treats to audiences near and far. With a curated line-up of comedy legends and fresh faces from Australia and beyond, the Roadshow has all your comedy bases covered (no joke) – all in one side-splitting show.
For almost three decades the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been touring far and wide, bringing giggles, guffaws and good times to Australia – and now it’s Horsham’s turn.
Experience the fun of Australia’s largest comedy festival in your own backyard. Grab your mates and get on board the Roadshow.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council

Horsham Mother's Day Classic
2026-05-10 00:00
The Mother’s Day Classic Horsham event was established for the local community and surrounding areas to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer whilst participating in a local 5 kilometre walk/ run.
Entry into the Mothers Day Classic has early bird pricing until the end of April and then standard pricing.
Please see the Mother’s Days Classic website for pricing and further information.
A great family event, it is an opportunity to do something active and celebrate Mother’s Day while remembering those who have been affected by breast cancer.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council

Heritage Day at the Stick Shed Murtoa
2026-05-09 00:00
Heritage day is a celebration of the the Stick Shed in Murtoa, the last remaining wooden bulk grain store of its type in the world.
There will be guided tours at 10:15 AM and 12:30 PM. The Decibelles choir will sing at 1:00 PM to display the Stick Shed’s extraordinary acoustics, and a new display.
To add to the day’s attraction, just across the road the only four mighty Hornsby engines still on their original mounts anywhere in the world will be fired up along with many others at 11:00 AM. The Water Tower Museum with its amazing collection will be open from noon to 2:00 PM. A chance to see its amazing bird collection and the Murtoa Railway station.
Elsewhere in Murtoa there will be a town wide garage sale and a country market. A great family day out with something for everyone.

Organised by Murtoa Stick Shed Committee of Management

Luke Kidgell: Good Intentions
2026-04-17 00:00 - 2026-06-28 00:00
Luke Kidgell continues his new World Tour in Australia in 2026.
Luke is known for his viral crowd-work interactions that often lead to some fairly unusual, yet hilarious encounters. Despite not having much control over his impulsive thoughts, Luke insists that deep down he means well, and this year he’s on a mission to prove it.
After touring the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Europe Luke is coming back home with his brand-new show Good Intentions. This is not one to miss.
You’ve seen him on the internet, now it’s time to see him in real life, as Luke tries to prove that he really does have Good Intentions.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council

Light's Cutting Edge - Gayle Cykner
2026-04-10 00:00 - 2026-05-24 00:00
The Raillery Hub Art Gallery in St Arnaud is delighted to exhibit the work of Gayle Cykner at its next exhibition.
Gayle Cykner is a regional Australian artist based in Victoria whose work focuses on finding beauty in the ordinary aspects of daily life.
She focuses on the subject matter by specialising in capturing local scenes, including backyards, laneways, and overlooked everyday vistas. She works primarily with oil on canvas to create detailed and often vibrant depictions of these scenes. Her work is described as a celebration of local environments and honouring the ordinary.

Organised by Raillery Hub Inc.

This working life: from the collection
2026-03-16 00:00 - 2026-06-21 00:00
Horsham Regional Art Gallery is pleased to present This working life, an exhibition of photography drawn entirely from the Gallery collection. Exploring the many ways Australians work, contribute to, and care for their communities and spanning more than a century, these images reveal labour not as an abstract idea but as lived experience shaped by hands, bodies, relationships and place.
From early twentieth‑century rural industry to the factories, offices and newsrooms of the post‑war decades and into contemporary workplaces, the exhibition traces shifting landscapes of work. Come and see farmers, machinists, rope makers, firefighters, refugees, printers, miners and scientists. Some labour in paddocks and foundries, others under fluorescent light or in moments of crisis. Each photograph honours the skill, resilience and quiet dignity of its subjects.
The exhibition features works by Robert Ashton, Samuel George Cahill, Harold Cazneaux, Norman Deck, John Immig, Con Kroker, Jesse Marlow, Bruce Postle, Ross Schultz, Wolfgang Sievers, Matthew Sleeth, Mark Strizic, Ian Ward and John Werrett. Their approaches range from modernist precision to documentary intimacy and photojournalistic urgency, reminding us that photography does more than record work, it shapes how labour is seen, remembered and valued.
Since its early years, Horsham Regional Art Gallery has held a strong commitment to collecting and exhibiting photography.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council

Werrun Wile Gan, soft possum gowns: Kelly Koumalatsos
2026-03-16 00:00 - 2026-06-21 00:00
Kaliopi Christine (Kelly) Koumalatsos is an Aboriginal – Greek Australian artist. Horsham Regional Art Gallery is proud to present Werrin Wile Gan – Soft Possum Gowns an exhibition of signature works by the Wamba Wamba and Wergaia woman, who for more than thirty years, has been central to the revival of possum skin cloak‑making in southeast Australia.
This exhibition brings together contemporary prints from the artist’s personal collection and delicate paper textile installations borrowed from Museums Victoria. The dresses and work garments are reminiscent of those worn by women in Koumalatsos’ matrilineal line. To make these works, printmaking ink was rolled directly onto possum fur and the impression transferred to paper or tissue paper. These prints and paper-textile works are the result of decades of practice led experimentation with possum fur and with the cultural processes surrounding possum skin cloak creation.
The garments’ shifting styles, the contradictory fragility of tissue paper as garment, and the act of printing the fur’s texture – all work together to shape meaning. As printed fur, you are offered an impression only, an echo. In southeast Australian Aboriginal cultures, possum skin cloaks are identity-bearing garments, surfaces for story and providers of literal warmth. These works remove you from the tactile and cultural qualities of possum skin itself and invite you to consider what happens when cultural knowledge is transmuted.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council

Demi Kromidellis: Ancestral Silence
2026-03-16 00:00 - 2026-05-24 00:00
Demi Kromidellis’ practice explores the layered intersections of heritage, memory, and identity. As a third-generation Australian of Greek descent, she reflects on the ways diaspora continues to shape cultural belonging within Victoria, where Greek immigrant communities have long contributed to the state’s social and cultural fabric.
In 2024, Kromidellis travelled to Greece to photograph her grandparents’ homes, now abandoned and decaying. These sites, once filled with life and tradition, stand as quiet monuments to migration, cultural practice, and family history. Through the act of revisiting and reimagining these spaces, she reflects on how culture adapts, transforms, and, at times, dilutes across generations.
The large-scale chromogenic prints, drawn from medium format film negatives, carry the rawness of both material and memory. They ask: what remains of a culture once uprooted? And how can its physical and symbolic legacies be carried forward?
Kromidellis’ photographs become more than records of place, they are meditations on belonging, dislocation and the fragile threads that tie people to ancestral homes. Her art balances the tangible beauty of the natural world with an almost spiritual awareness of its mysteries, drawing audiences into vivid encounters with both the physical and the imagined landscapes we inhabit. Her work is held in significant public collections and has been exhibited nationally and internationally, affirming her reputation as one of Australia’s most accomplished contemporary photographers.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council

Charlton Lawn Tennis Club Annual Tournament
2026-01-24 00:00 - 2027-01-25 00:00
The Charlton Lawn Tennis Club, Victoria’s oldest regional tennis club formed in 1881, holds an annual three day tennis tournament, around the Australia Day holiday, on 16 excellent grass courts. There are Open, A, B, C and D grades in each event of mens and ladies singles, mens and ladies doubles and mixed doubles. A changing partners doubles event is provided on the singles day for those who do not wish to play singles.
Mixed doubles is all played on one day (all five grades of finals played under lights), mens and ladies doubles on another day and singles and changing partner doubles, on the other day; all events are on a round robin format, guaranteeing everyone a great weekend of tennis.
The club has excellent facilities, an extensive shade area fully enclosed by a child-proof fence, with all catering provided over the weekend. The tournament has a friendly family atmosphere and Charlton is located on the Calder Highway and on either side of the Avoca River.
Accommodation (arranged by the contestants) is provided by a bed and breakfast, two motels, two hotels, an en-suite caravan park and a caravan/tent park. There are a number of coffee/eatery options.
Come and enjoy a relaxing weekend in the country.

Organised by Charlton Lawn Tennis Club Annual Tournament

View from here: Highlights from the National Gallery collection
2025-04-21 00:00 - 2027-03-07 00:00
The iconic mountain ranges of western Victoria, including Mt Arapiles, have served as creative stimulus for countless artists. The exhibition View from here: Highlights from the National Gallery collection will see key paintings, works on paper, artist’s books and even furniture, by artists such as Eugene von Guerard, Nicholas Chevalier, Thomas Clark, Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and John Olsen return to the landscape that inspired them.
This exhibition is on long-term loan from the National Gallery of Australia with support from the Australian Government as part of Sharing the National Collection.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council

The Mack Jost Gift
2025-04-20 00:00 - 2027-01-07 00:00
Horsham Regional Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit the Mack Jost Gift, a selection of works drawn from over 250 works donated to the Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection by Australian concert pianist Mack Jost (pronounced ‘yost’) AM (1918-2000). Jost’s legacy tells a nationally significant story of private benefaction supporting regional Australia and is an important element in the story of art and culture in the Wimmera. His generosity served our region and propelled forward the development of the art gallery.
The Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection was then established in 1972. Eight years later, Horsham-born Mack Jost approached Council and Gallery staff with the proposal of a significant series of gifts to the collection; he offered to gift his private collection of Australian paintings and works on paper to the Horsham collection, as a series of donations during his lifetime and culminating in a significant bequest. Jost selected Horsham to commemorate his family’s long association with the Wimmera, having been born in Horsham in 1918, and his father Conrad Henry Jost was a farmer on land outside of Horsham for several decades. From then, Jost progressively donated his personal art collection of over 250 works by significant Australian artists from the colonial and modern eras, culminating in the final bequest after his death in 2000.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council

2022 Victorian Off-Road Championship round 5 & 6
2022-05-21 - 2022-05-22 | Possum Park Enduro Track, Casterton-Edenhope Rd, Chetwynd, 3312, -37.30390283072896, 141.4007535401442
Edenhope Motorcycle Club will host round 5 and 6 of the 2022 Victorian Off-Road Championships.
When: Saturday 21 May and Sunday 22 May 2022. All day Event.
Where: Possum Park Enduro Track at 4108 Casterton Edenhope Rd, Chetwynd, VIC 3312.
Fully Catered, free entry for spectators!
All Welcome. Community and Tourism Event
See Edenhope Motorcycle Club Facebook page for more information.
Find more information about the 2022 Victorian Off-Road Championship here.

Awesome event
2022-03-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Ascet Digital, 17 Lydiard Street South, Ballarat, Victoria, 3350, Australia
Something really great coming up

You won’t want to miss this one.

Sycco - The Push All-Ages Tour
2022-02-18 17:30 | Warracknabeal Secondary College, 1 Tregear St, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia

Sing a Song of Sixpence
2022-01-29 19:30 - 22:30 | The Hindmarsh Hotel, 50 Roy St, Jeparit, Victoria, 3423, Australia
Performed live and in the round – a songwriter’s delight featuring feat.
Line up:

Abby Dobson
Freya Josephine Hollick
Grim Fawkner
Delsinki
Danny Walsh
and accompanied by Cameron McKenzie (Mark Seymour & the Undertow)

4CYTE ™Country Classic
2022-01-29 - 2022-01-30 | Dimboola Showgrounds, 43 Lloyd Street, Dimboola, Victoria, 3414, Australia
DRESSAGE: Preparatory to FEI–AOR, Open, Closed Restricted & Interschools.
